II.1.1 336. Incertum (commercial?), ca. 500-475 B.C.E.

Monument

Type

Wall and neck fragment. 

Material

Clay. 

Dimensions (cm)

H.14.9, W.14.5, Th., Diam..

Additional description

Amphora, Chios, swollen neck type, 500-475 B.C.E. 

Find place

Berezan. 

Find context

West sector I, Pit 2, depth down to 1.20 m from day surface. 

Find circumstances

Found in 1962, excavations of K.S. Gorbunova. 

Modern location

Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation. 

Institution and inventory

The State Hermitage Museum, Б.62.85. 

Autopsy

August 2016. 

Epigraphic field

Position

Neck, exterior. Originally inscribed on complete vessel. 

Lettering

Graffito. 

Letterheights (cm)

2.8-4 (preserved)

Text

Category

Incertum (commercial?) 

Date

Ca. 500-475 B.C.E. 

Dating criteria

Ceramic date. 

Edition

Diplomatic

EpiDoc (XML)

<div type="edition" xml:lang="grc">
   <ab>
      <lb n="1"/>
   </ab>
   </div>
 
Apparatus criticus

Translation

 

Commentary

There is no complete letter preserved, but the preserved strokes are connected and might signify nu or mu, perhaps in ligature with another letter. Placed on the neck, in very large letters, this is most likely a commercial notation.

 

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